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Oil prices trade below $42 in Asia

Oil prices traded below $42 in Asia Monday ahead of an OPEC meeting and the release of data on China's important manufacturing sector later in the week.

Pakistan’s Ahmadis under increasing threat after recent attack in Jhelum 

"Are these the people with bullets who took my papa away?" two-year-old Sabiha Ahmad asked her mother anxiously when AFP visited her family, members of Pakistan's persecuted Ahmadis community, who are currently living in hiding.

Life returns to Syrian town after IS ousted

Outside her home in a town of northeast Syria, four-year-old Baydaa scribbles on a leaflet of religious rules left behind by the Islamic State group as they fled earlier this month.

England beat Pakistan in first Twenty20

DUBAI: England beat Pakistan by 14 runs in the first Twenty20 international to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series in Dubai on Thursday.

The Times corrects claim of UK Muslim support for IS

LONDON: The Times on Thursday corrected a "misleading" headline that claimed a fifth of British Muslims had sympathy for the Islamic State, amid accusations Muslims have been demonised after the Paris attacks.

Brussels mosque evacuated over suspicious ‘white powder’

BRUSSELS: The Great Mosque of Brussels was evacuated and 11 people decontaminated Thursday after the discovery of a suspicious package containing white powder as the EU capital remained on highest possible terror alert.

Pakistan to invite PayPal, Alibaba to start e-commerce services

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to invite global online payment giants PayPal and Alibaba to offer their services in the country, the IT ministry has said, after easing its e-commerce rules.

MSF hospital strike ’caused primarily by human error’: US commander

KABUL: A US air strike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan that killed at least 30 people was caused primarily by human error, the commander of US forces said Wednesday, promising disciplinary action.

Afridi wants cricket with India, any time, any place

DUBAI: Pakistan's Twenty20 skipper Shahid Afridi Wednesday fully endorsed any resumption of cricket ties with India, saying wherever and whenever a series is played the show must go on, irrespective of politics.

Execution of disabled Pakistani man delayed for fourth time

A disabled Pakistani murder convict was given a fourth stay of execution late Tuesday just hours before he was due to be hanged, as rights activists slammed Islamabad for a executions spree on track to see 300 deaths in under a year.

Children study under open skies as quake rocks education in Pakistan

Ishtiaq Khalid is having a slow day, forced to stay home from his school in the Pakistani district of Shangla due to inclement weather -- but unlike most 12-year-olds, he is not happy about it.

Oil down in Asia on oversupply fears

Oil prices fell in Asia on Monday, extending their slide as a stronger dollar and news that world stockpiles have reached a record high put pressure on futures.

Cricket: Pakistan’s Amir in Bangladesh on redemption road

Mohammad Amir's last appearance on a cricket pitch outside his native Pakistan led to a six-month sentence in a British prison for corruption.

Israeli spy Pollard released after 30 years in US jail

JERUSALEM: Jewish American Jonathan Pollard was released from nearly 30 years in prison for passing US secrets to Israel on Friday in a move swiftly welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Pakistan director of Paris video ‘humbled’ by viral response

The Pakistani director behind a video response to the Paris attacks that has received millions of views is "humbled" by the response, he told AFP.

China says 28 ‘terrorists’ killed in Xinjiang

BEIJING: Chinese police shot dead 28 members of a "terrorist group" in the mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang, state media said Friday, citing police.

US pushes Syria peace process after Assad rejects timetable

The US was pushing to keep Syria's peace process alive Thursday, saying President Bashar al-Assad's future will be decided in the coming weeks, after the embattled leader rejected an ambitious timetable to cede power.

Female suicide-bomber; France’s first but well-used tactic worldwide

PARIS: On Wednesday morning in a Paris suburb, a woman detonated an explosives belt she was wearing -- a first in France but part of a growing list of female suicide bombers who have carried out acts of carnage worldwide.

Gold dives close to six-year low

LONDON: Gold sank Wednesday close to the lowest level in nearly six years, as the dollar rallied on prospects for a December interest rate hike from the US Federal Reserve.

Jaffar Express accident death toll rises to 19

QUETTA: The death toll from a deadly train accident in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province has risen to 19 and around a dozen people are still in critical condition, officials said on Wednesday.
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